In the middle of the night, you hear two loud thumps outside your bedroom door. Your ________ nervous system increases your heart rate and sends blood away from internal organs to your muscles, preparing you for "fight or flight."

When you learn it is just your roommate coming in late, your ________ nervous system slows down your heart rate and calms you down.

a. peripheral; somatic
b. somatic; peripheral
c. sympathetic; parasympathetic
d. parasympathetic; sympathetic


Answer: c. sympathetic; parasympathetic

Psychology

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Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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Compared to less hardy adolescents, hardy adolescents have little self-control and have problems dealing with change

Indicate whether the statement is true or false.

Psychology

Johnny has never been harassed by the school bully, but most of his friends have. Johnny's decision to stand up to the bully to protect his friends represents a type of ________ morality.

a. preconventional b. conventional c. formal conventional d. postconventional

Psychology

The middle value in a distribution of data listed in numeric order is called ______.

A. mean B. mode C. median D. variance

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